FAA to decommission RCO network.

[Fixtur]

The "newest" airplane I've ever flown was a 2012 CJ3. That was in 2020.

 

[Inverted]

I see this being a problem for third-world countries like Alaska. I haven't used an RCO in a decade and when I did try, it was a 50/50 shot on getting anything useful out of one.

 

[///AMG]

bring back Flight Watch

That went away?

 

[MikeD]

That went away?

122.0 is blank. No one home.

 

[///AMG]

122.0 is blank. No one home.

Now that i think of it, I dont hear them reference “flight watch or HIWAS for more information” anymore

Edit: apparently HIWAS is down too

 

[Beep]

It’s what we use to talk to FSS when we’re flying around our Aeronca SuperTramp.

That’s a real Cheap Trick.

 

[Hiboglossi]

Now that i think of it, I dont hear them reference “flight watch or HIWAS for more information” anymore

Edit: apparently HIWAS is down too

Flight Watch ended in 2015, which I didn't find out until I tried to call them about a week after it was decommissioned. I had recently used it right before it ended, unaware it was about to be discontinued. Interestingly, I kept hearing "flight watch for more information" on ATISes for several years afterward, presumably inertia on the part of the controllers who record them.